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Filming on the South Island, New Zealand, with Location Manager Philip Turner
Philip started his working life in Queenstown as a ski bum, thinking it was a worthwhile alternative to further education. Eventually, after a very late and short stint at university, he got a job as (an older) PA on a…
Filming in Northern Argentina with Shooting Salta
Shooting Salta was established in 2009 by Rodrigo Moscoso, Alejandro Gallo Bermudez and Rodrigo Saravia who decided to return to their native city of Salta after spending ten years working in major production companies in Buenos Aires. They service motion…
Pepsi Japan films on location in northern Finland for new Christmas spot
Christmas came to northern Finland early this year when Pepsi Japan shot its Christmas commercial at the Oulu market square with production company TFC Japan. Locations in Norway, Denmark and the Baltic countries were considered, as well as other Finnish…
Alberta streamlines location filming funds for co-productions and foreign shoots
Alberta in Canada has increased the cash available in its funding programme, known as the Alberta Multimedia Development Fund. Separately, an expert panel will now consider all applications for the project/script development programme within the fund. The revised scheme makes…
Ohio calls for stronger filming tax credits after summer of The Avengers
Filming professionals in Ohio are calling for stronger state filming tax credits. The Avengers is one of the state’s highest-profile recent visitors, but Ohio's annual film fund is capped at just USD10 million and this figure has already been reached…
Sherlock Holmes sequel films in London music hall and recreates period Europe
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows filmed mainly in the UK, including scenes at Wilton’s Music Hall, which is the world’s oldest surviving music hall. Aside from brief visits to Switzerland and France, London doubled for some of the Parisian…
Merry Christmas from The Location Guide!
It’s been a busy year for us here at The Location Guide and we’d like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as 2011 reaches its twilight days. We’ve had a full-on 12 months…
Editor’s Weekly
Ahmad Tea has recreated turn-of-the-20th Century England in Portugal, revealing a potential alternative for commercial filmmakers seeking more bang for their buck. We also took an in-depth look at a pretty stunning new commercial from Jeep that filmed on location…
Tom Cruise dices with death filming in Dubai for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise has pulled out all the stops for the latest in the Mission: Impossible franchise. The film hinges on a stunt sequence where the star scales Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which at nearly 830 metres is the tallest building in…
Filming in Bolivia with the Benavides family
The Benavides are a unique ice-climbing, Harley-loving father-and-two-sons production team. Yecid Senior studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Miami but has made a career as a musician and producer. Yecid Junior is also a musician as well a director,…